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From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [WIP PATCH] Adding more keybindings to rectangle-mark-mode-map
Date: Sat, 1 May 2021 19:26:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210501172630.rly7cwmhk4z65x2s@Ergus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANh=_JFy4vAmedtBMy6EW6Ri-nNB09jpGkVYf4h2mYBahZ+QhA@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 09:02:51AM -0700, Jim Porter wrote:
>> This said, I do think the way yanking rectangles works currently is not
>> fully satisfactory, because it's not always clear/intuitive how where
>> the rectangle will get inserted.  So maybe we do need a special yank
>> command active during `rectangle-mark-mode` which replaces the selected
>> rectangle with the yanked one, or something like that.
>
>I agree. Once I tinkered with yanking rectangles a bit, it (mostly)
>made sense to me, but instinctively, I wanted to select the rect to
>yank into first. That works as you'd expect when the point is at the
>beginning of the rect but not when it's at the end. I'm not sure what
>I'd want to change though, since it works the same as yanking when you
>have a non-rectangular region selected too.
>
Yes please. The rectangular selection copy and yanking es very confusing
now. And it forces me to use the multi-cursor package too often and
recommend it to my students. In spite of it is unstable and have breaks
with undo and is incompatible with some commands.

So a good improvement in the rectangular selection could partially
replace some of the use cases we actually have for multi-cursor.

>- Jim
>



      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-01 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-01  5:23 [WIP PATCH] Adding more keybindings to rectangle-mark-mode-map Jim Porter
2021-05-01 13:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-01 16:02   ` Jim Porter
2021-05-01 17:20     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-01 22:31       ` Jim Porter
2021-05-02  6:57         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-02 15:48           ` Jim Porter
2021-05-02 16:09             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-02 16:36               ` Jim Porter
2021-05-02 18:07                 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-03  4:06                   ` Jim Porter
2021-05-03  7:55                     ` Andreas Schwab
2021-05-03 15:26                       ` Jim Porter
2021-05-08  1:52                         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-08  7:15                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-08  6:55                         ` Andreas Schwab
2021-05-08 18:57                           ` [PATCH] Improve docstring for delete-active-region (was Re: [WIP PATCH] Adding more keybindings to rectangle-mark-mode-map) Jim Porter
2021-06-18  3:09                             ` Jim Porter
2021-06-19 12:27                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-19 16:28                                 ` Jim Porter
2021-05-01 17:26     ` Ergus [this message]

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